Short-term impacts of logging on understorey vegetation in a jarrah forest

Australian Forestry

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-58

  Burrows, N D ^a   Ward, B ^b   Cranfield, R ^b  

^a Bentley Delivery Centre   (Australia)

^b Department of Conservation and Land Managements ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental impact; Eucalyptus marginata; Logging; Regeneration; Silvicultural systems; Soil disturbance; Stand development; Understorey; Vegetation types; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

SOIL MECHANICS; VEGETATION; WEED CONTROL; WOOD PRODUCTS;

SILVICULTURAL TREATMENTS; SOIL DISTURBANCE;

LOGGING (FORESTRY);

ECOSYSTEMS; PLANTS; SHELTERWOOD; SILVICULTURE; SOIL STRUCTURE; WEEDS; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS MARGINATA;

EID: 0036507611     PISSN: 00049158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049158.2002.10674852     Document Type: Article

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